Shoe-cleaning device.



R. HENRY.

530E CLEANING DEVICE. I

APPLIOATION FILED 001:. 1a. 1908.

Patented May 25, 1909.

Inven Wiinesses Rs CO4, WASHINGTON, o. c.

lllNliT T ROBERT HENRY, OF PUEBLO, COLORADO.

SHOE-CLEANING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 25, 1909.

Application filed October 13, 1908. Serial No. 457,512.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, ROBERT HENRY, a citizen of the United States, and residing in Pueblo, county of Pueblo, and State of Colorado, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Shoe-Cleaning Devices, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in shoe cleaning devices, and the objects of my invention are; first, to furnish a shoe cleaning device which will clean the bottom and sides of a shoe at the same time and adjustable to any size of shoe by spring means; and second, to provide a shoe cleaning device with brushes all attachable at convenient places I attain these objects by the mechanisms illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which,

Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the use of my device complete; and Fig. 2 is a detailed perspective view of wire frame for holding brushes.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several drawings.

A resilient wire 9 is bent in the form shown in Fig. 2. The end 7 is flattened with perforations for attachment of one of the blocks 24 carrying one of the brushes. It is bent outwardly at right angles to 7 and at 8 is coiled to form spring. From this coil wire 9 descends perpendicularly, parallel with 7 to be determined by the construction, where is formed coil 10. From coil 10 the wire 9 extends diagonally on a horizontal course to 11 where wire 9 is bent at right angles and extends in a perpendicular course to 12 where wire 9 is again bent to a horizontal course until it reaches 13 where it is bent in a perpendicular course until it reaches 14 where it is again bent in a horizontal course forming a part of base and at 15 wire 9 is again bent back upon its course andcontinues in a horizontal course, forming part of base, to 16 where it is again bent back on its horizontal course, still forming part of base, to 17. At 17 wire 9 is bent perpendicularly and extends upward to 18 where it is bent horizontally in which course it extends until it reaches 19 where it is bent perpendicularly and extends downwardly until it reaches 20, where it is bent so as to form part of base and so continues untilit reaches 2 1 where it is coiled to form spring, from which coil 21 wire 9 extends upwardperpendicularly until it reaches 22 where it is again coiled to form spring,

then it extends in a horizontal direction for a short distance when it is bent downwardly and flattened to form face, 23, in which are perforations for attachment of one of the brush blocks 2 1. The course of wire 9 between 12 and 13 is parallel with the course of wire 9 between 18 and 19 and on said parallel courses one of the brush blocks 24 is attached forming the base brush in the mechanism as shown in Fig. 1. The course of wire 9 between 10 and 1] is diagonal to the direction of wire 9 between 12 and 13. The course of wire 9 between 20 and 21 is diagonal to the course'of said wire between 18 and 19, and various bends and courses are so made that face 7 is directly opposite face 23 and when brush blocks are attached to the parallel parts of wire before described and to each of the faces 7 and 23 the same have the relative position shown in Fig. 1. By screw means the wire 9 is attached permanently to the door step, porch floor, or block, by use of screws in loops 15 and 16, as shown in Fig. 1.

When brushes are mounted upon frame as before stated, a person may clean his shoe both bottom and sides with practically only one movement through the brushes, and by the various coils in wire 9 I have provided spring means whereby varying sizes of shoes could be cleaned in the same device as the side brushes are adjusted so as to press quite close together and at the same time means for accommodating larger sizes of shoes are provided in the several coils of wire 9. Moreover I have provided in the wire formed frame an open work frame easily constructed and of one continuous piece of wire.

I claim,

In a shoe cleaning device of the character described, a wire frame composed of a continuous piece of wire, each end of wire flattened and perforated to receive brushes in perpendicular position and directly opposite each other, wire laterally bent from said flattened ends forming a coil at the top and said wire bending downwardly and again forming a coil, said wire so bent as to form base laterally and longitudinally with loops in said wire forming places for attachment of said device, said wire also bent so as to form supporting parallel rods for base brushes, all substan tially as set forth.

ROBERT HEN RY. Witnesses: WM. A. FRY,

R. R. MILLER. 

